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- santiago1, on 01/08/2009, -1/+26FTA: "Lower the temperature ... far enough (-459 degrees F is a good number..."
Explains why I tend to float whenever I get near my wife... - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+18stop teasing me with thoughts of my never-obtained hoverboard
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11Google can do the conversion for you, using almost your exact syntax. Just enter:
-459 F in C
and the result comes back:
(-459) degrees Fahrenheit = -272.777778 degrees Celsius
In human terms: Brrrrrr!!! - davidrools, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11almost absolute zero. 0.37 Kelvin. (note: you never say "degrees Kelvin"...the Kelvin scale is not divided in degrees)
But you can make ferrous metals levitate with a yttrium-barium-copper-oxide superconductor at a relatively warm liquid nitrogen temperature (around 70K or -330ºF). This article is out of date. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -2/+10With some hand lotion and a picture of Winona Ryder, I can make a towel levitate.
- slide2k, on 01/08/2009, -0/+8Hey it aint 2015 yet. Just a few more years and then you can complain.
- Balanced, on 01/08/2009, -1/+9Use Google. It's very, very cold.
- ColorBlind, on 01/08/2009, -0/+7Dugg for the awesome/real definition of ice skating.
- woofers07, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6shouldn't it be EX-wife then?
- jason210, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5hoverboard is possible soon!
- Pstall, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5It's wacky but it works!™
- glitchbit, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5I tend to believe that doughnuts can only have a positive charge..
- Rivetgeek, on 01/09/2009, -0/+3buoyancy != levitation.
- NihilFist, on 01/08/2009, -1/+4What's -459 F in C... or better yet, in K?
- devicefailure, on 01/09/2009, -0/+3Douglas Adams once said that the way to fly was to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Nauree, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3BURNED
ironic isnt? - anexanhume, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3This is not levitation unless you allow some other medium other than air to be in the definition. This method is medium dependent. (According to this, I could say I levitate in water ;) ) However, had magnetism been used in a manner such that the medium one object was suspended in was air, it would fit the definition. Of course, a purely magnetic approach should work for most non-ferrous mediums (of which air is included).
I think this whole thing is more aptly described as something along the lines of "auto-aligning lubricant." - lorem1000, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2When they invented movable type nearly one thousand years ago.
- chipxsd, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2No, I'm a great fan of Tesla, but there's a large difference between these two. For starters, we can reproduce every experiment Nikola ever documented and achieve the same results he did - and there's nothing strange and mysterious about them, it's what we call 'science'.
But this Hutchison guy, he made a fool of him self too many times -- he could not even reproduce his own so claimed experiments. I even watched a half hour long video of him proving nothing.
Nikola was a great man, so don't you dare compare him with this idiot. - pitdog, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3Feel the Force, let it flow through you. Let the Force guide you.
- chipxsd, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3Don't get me started with that guy. He owns a pile of measurement equipment he doesn't know how to use. Turning knobs and pushing buttons randomly doesn't mean he knows science.
- Plopfish, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2What a letdown. I thought they would build up upon this: Levitating a frog (other's include spider, strawberry, etc.) Sort of mentioned it in then story. But their new discovery simply seems to be a metal "floating" on a liquid....idk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_gzB0WKF0 - iancgi, on 01/09/2009, -1/+3You sound like the people who ridiculed Nikola Tesla
- sirron811, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1I can't ice skate = I can't levitate. Now I'm even more depressed...
- lorem1000, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2Bigger let down than the hyped invisibility cloak *****.
- Solacer, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1You could possibly create a device that outputs those extreme temperatures and levitate a couple of inches. You'll probably melt your internal organs in the process, but you'll look really cool for about three seconds.
- Jektal, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2Auto-Aligning Lubricant is definitely a subject which needs more research!
"Super Lube? Oh it's great stuff! Great stuff!" - clairdelune371, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1It's not a letdown, doing this stuff isn't easy, every step is an achievement. Of course it's not great nor near perfect, but it is~ a step.
- DiscoverySound, on 01/09/2009, -1/+2China is already using the tech for their trains...China? When did they become advanced....
- volcompimp, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2How many other nerds here read "Learning more about Leviathon"?
- xLSDx, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1Haven't they dis-proven that stupid ice skating myth?
- imnotdavey, on 01/08/2009, -2/+2i knew David Blaine was on to something.
- syntaxgs, on 01/08/2009, -8/+2C is twice the amount in F so just multiply F by 2 to get a good esimate
only works for Very High temps though - iancgi, on 01/08/2009, -9/+2Or just use sound frequencies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUgDJc6AWE
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